links
A growing collection of links to interesting content.
AWSM
newly formed venture school and studio created to provide analysis, product development support, coaching and capital access to early stage startups.
category: venture studio
morir soñando
morir soñando is an online store where you can buy designs by daveed and his friends
category: shop
Fireside Project’s Guide to Psychedelic Citizenship
envision a psychedelic community where each person is empowered with the skills and knowledge to stay safe and support each other as they navigate their psychedelic experiences. find important safety tips; tools for supporting loved ones during and after psychedelic journeys; warning signs when selecting a psychedelic facilitator; and an overview of some of the many lies at the foundation of the War on Drugs
Communication, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution Strategies
Rangers employ a number of strategies while interacting with participants and patrolling in Black Rock City. These skills and strategies are techniques employed when engaging in communication, conflict mediation and resolution.
radical healership
The countercultural healer's guide for building a sustainable and values-driven practice: work toward your purpose, grow your client base, and thrive with integrity in an unjust capitalist system. The time for healing--and the time to be a healer--is now.
category: book
The Myth of Normal
A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
category: book
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
"I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd."
category: book
Decomodify Permission
In this blog post Caveat shares how to create psychomagical art experiences for members of the community.
Turn your life into art
Over 30 years, San Francisco's underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars to do what these artists and anti-artists did using nothing but time, space, and imagination. It was "a movement without a manifesto," with people discovering how it worked through trial and error. Very little was written down - until now. Caveat Magister, widely seen as one of the leading voices of Burning Man's philosophy, has written this book to explain what these experiences were, why they worked, and how you can create your own.
category: book
harm reduction
Harm reduction is an approach that emphasizes engaging directly with people who use drugs to prevent overdose and infectious disease transmission, improve the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of those served, and offer low-threshold options for accessing substance use disorder treatment and other health care services.
Burning man coverage by ABC News (1997)
ABC Nightlife coverage of Burning Man 1997. Interviews of Larry Harvey, Marian Goodell, Michael Christian, Spencer Tunick, Michael Mikel, Tony Coyote, Sheriff Richard Kirkland and others
category: video
Art Therapy for addiction treatment
the creative process of art-making to improve the mental, physical and emotional well-being of the person